Lessons Learned from Ike

• Tree frogs (the little green slimy ones) will stick around and cry for water even during a torrential downpour and 100+ mile winds.
• Little boys are hard to entertain without electricity.
• Mommies can substitute for electricity.
• Big boys are impossible to entertain without electricity!
• If disparate enough, you can shave your legs in a mud puddle. Just listen for cars passing by!
• 5 adults, 1 kid, and 2 dogs can live in two rooms of one house for a week off of a generator.
• 3 year old little boys can teach their 70+ year old great-grandmother how to use a flashlight with great patience.
• My family needs to work on our vocabulary. Throughout two games of scrabble the longest word was "Tattoo."
• Love bugs love the smell of gasoline!!!
• You can cook gumbo, rice, pancakes, eggs, and bacon on a fish fryer.
• Air mattresses are made for two people.
• Little boys think air mattresses make good trampolines.
• Fans work wonders!! Especially if there are two old women snoring in the room with the AC.
• Emergency room waits are shorter when 70% of the town is evacuated.
• Cops do not really enforce the curfew, as long as you don't look suspicious.
• Little kids and grandmothers do not understand the concept of electricity. They will ask you a million times if they can do something just to hear you say "That works on electricity..."
• You're best bet for a hot shower is to befriend someone with a gas powered hot water heater.
• If you aren't friendly enough, you can take a hot bath by boiling a pot of water on a fish fryer and combining with cold water.
• Dogs can chew off the wires of a generator.
• I can get spoiled to working from home easily... very easily!

On a side note, I posted some of my pictures from the hurricane here. Let me know what you think. We didn't have any damage to speak of. Jace's pirate ship docked in the front yard, loosing pieces along the way and his sandbox lid ended up in the road in front of the neighbors house. Our outside AC unit was almost knocked off of the cement block but it slid back into place without a problem and seems to be working! We were very lucky! God was definitely looking out for us!